TC Electronic SPARK BOOSTER Awesome Booster Pedal with Gain Control and Active EQ

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My current guitar setup is a Classic Player Strat (with factory mics) and a Jazzmaster (with Seymour Duncan Phat Cats). and trademark able subject matter, patents and patentable subject matter, trade secrets, and other intellectual Thinking about it I read again your article at the “Volume pedal” voice and after some research I’ve found the Electro Harmonix SIGNAL PAD! It does the same job as a volume pedal but with a knob and a stomp instead of a pedal. It attenuates the signal in an easier way then a pedal in my opinion if you want it to be always at the same settings because it doesn’t move. First I lowered Gain on the amp between 1 and 2 and Volume at 4. Now I can keep volume on pedals higher but I still have the level matching issue between cleans, gains and muff.

I’m a bit newbie in this field, but I have a question about a tight-budget bedroom setup: What would be a good amp as pedal platform when playing with headphones (in the context of Gilmour’s sounds ofc)?

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My other question: given the volume and gain settings I wrote above, am I already distorting the power section? It doesn't sound like it is to me. I know the gain setting is getting close to distorting. I can hear it trying to do so. There are a number of compelling reasons. Firstly, you can often get very musical overdrive at lower volumes. Second, you can get much higher levels of distortion from your gain pedals or amps.

I’m leaning towards the EQ because I think it will let me adjusting the sound while boosting the power tube, as you also described in your article. OK, so the amp you use is a typical Fender tweed era, with a bit of mid range and compression but not as much as a Hiwatt or Marshall. Also, given that it is a smaller amp and you’re playing at home, which prevents loud volume, speaker and tube saturation, I would go for something versatile taht will match this setup. You could go for a vintage style fuzz or Big Muff, the latter which David is using on Comf Numb, but I don’t think that will give you the loud and smooth tones he gets with his Hiwatts.

In addition to the main windows, there's also a floating transport window with all the usual play/stop/fast wind buttons plus looping, location readout and a multifunction wheel that can be used for scrubbing, varispeed or time‑stretching. The scrub function can be used either from Play or Pause mode depending on whether you want play to resume automatically after scrubbing or not.